Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and International Monetary Fund’s Managing Director Christine Lagarde discussed provisions of a next tranche of the loan to Ukraine, the Ukrainian president’s press service said in a statement on Saturday.

The Ukrainian government has failed to investigate bloodshed connected to the February 2014 riots that drove an elected government from office, Russia's Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin told the Security Council on Monday.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Sunday confirmed that the repatriation of Ukrainian national Nadezhda Savchenko, who was in custody in Russia, was agreed before a Monday conversation between the leaders of the Normandy Four, comprising Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s decision to appoint NATO’s former secretary-general as his personal adviser will probably backfire and lead to an escalation of the civil war in his country, US analysts told Sputnik.

New Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman vowed in a conversation with US Vice President Joe Biden on Friday to focus on anti-corruption measures and on meeting the IMF reform obligations, the White House announced in a release.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) disapproves of the release by hackers of personal information of reporters working in eastern Ukraine, CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Nina Ognianova said in a press release on Wednesday.

US Vice President Joe Biden spoke with Ukraine’s newly-elected Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman urging him to ‘quickly’ move forward on Kiev’s reform program and fulfill its IMF and Minsk accords commitments in order to maintain international support, the White House announced in a statement on Thursday.

The candidate for the post of Ukraine's prime minister and the makeup of the new Ukrainian government have been agreed upon by the country's Verkhovna Rada, the leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity" party, Yuriy Lutsenko, said on Wednesday.

The resignation of Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk will have no effect on the crisis in the country, as the core of the government is "ultra-corrupted and a sort of mafia," a member of the Austrian parliament from the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria (FPO), told Sputnik.